(DROOD)Variations: Drudenfuss ("Drude's foot"), Drudenstein ("Drude's stone"), Drute, Nachtmahr, T?rin, Trud, Trude, Trut, WalriderskeA VAMPIRIC WITCH well versed in the black arts, from the folklore of Austria and Bavaria, the drude has been reported as far back as the twelfth century. Almost always a woman, it will shape-shift into a bird at night and seek out a man, as they are powerless against her, to inflict horrible nightmares and terrible visions upon. She can be warded off with a drudenstein ("drude's stone"), a stone with a naturally occurring hole in it, or with a drudenkreuz ("drude's cross"), essentially a pentagram.Source: Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, 1041; Jones, Onthe Nightmare, 218; Pearson, Chances of Death, 181